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Alpha male chimpanzee at Kibale forest National Park🐒

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🐒Chimpanzee

Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)

Schimpansen (Pan troglodytes) är tillsammans med bonobon den apa som är närmast släkt med människan, den delar omkring 99 % av sitt DNA med den moderna människan. Schimpanser har dock 48 kromosomer medan människor endast har 46. Schimpansens närmaste släkting är bonobon. Artepitetet i det vetenskapliga namnet är bildat av ett grekiskt ord som beskriver en individ som uppsöker hålor eller som vilar i en grotta. Ursprunget till namnet schimpans är djurets trivialnamn på ett bantuspråk som talas i norra Angola och angränsande delar av Kongo-Kinshasa.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
Common Chimpanzee, Robust Chimpanzee, Savanna Chimpanzee
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
45 kg
Body length
0.87 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
1,511 N
Maximum lifespan
74 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chimpanzee

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
45 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 45 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.87 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Standing height
1.35 m1–1.7 m · typical rangestanding (erect)
Details ↓

ADW: "When standing erect, they are 1 to 1.7 m tall." Range only; value is the midpoint. Source states the posture (standing erect), so recorded as standing height.

Source: Shefferly 2005, 'Pan troglodytes', Animal Diversity Web, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pan_troglodytes/ · see citation

Bite force
1,511 N
Details ↓

MODELLED by 3D finite-element analysis, bite at the second molar; adult female specimen, 49.9 kg. Same paper, method and tooth as the gorilla and human values in this file, so the three are directly comparable to each other.

Source: Wroe, Ferrara, McHenry, Curnoe & Chamoli 2010, Proc R Soc B 277:3579 · see citation

Brain mass
364 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
74 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 68 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
11 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
229 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 229 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
11 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1.57 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
45 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Chimpanzee yet: shoulder height, top speed.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusPan
  7. ›speciesPan troglodytes
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. subfamilyHomininae
  4. genusPan
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. subfamilyHomininae
  14. genusPan
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Closest relative on this site
🐒 Bonobo — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.3 million years ago.
What it eats
fruit60%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
insects and other invertebrates10%
In other languages
szympans zwyczajny (pl), Gemeiner Schimpanse (de), Pan troglodytes (fr), Χιμπαντζής ο κοινός (el), Chimpancé común (es), 黑猩猩 (zh) … and 28 more languages
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Alpha male chimpanzee at Kibale forest National ParkChimpanzee at Kibale forest National ParkiNat photo 247854928
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